Obamateurism of the Day

posted at 8:05 am on January 26, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

When presidents need to relaunch after losing a big midterm election, they like to offer an attractive slogan for their new agenda, in large part to take voters’ minds off of the old, unpopular agenda that created the political setback. After losing more House seats in a midterm than any President in 72 years, Barack Obama needed a new slogan more than most. CBS reported that the White House christened his State of the Union speech as “winning the future”:

President Obama will use tonight’s State of the Union address to issue a broad call for a common ground approach to get the nation’s financial house in order.

Nearly three months after what he described as the “shellacking” suffered by his party in the midterm elections, the president will try to balance a call for job creation and deficit reduction. He will offer his vision to promote hiring with what officials describe as “targeted investments.” He will frame it as a plan for “winning the future.”

Also, a President who spends as much time talking about the new Internet age as Obama did in his speech last night might have considered that the acronym for his cool new slogan is … WTF.

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Winning? Isn’t that a term you would use in war? I thought we were being more civil these days. How about Working Together To Secure Our Financial Future And The Future Of Our Children, or WTTSOFFATFOOC for short?

I guess Marxists aren’t big on originality. Plus, his staff sucks. They constantly make one mistake after another, as if they really think no one could possibly be as smart as they are. Turns out they’re pretty darn dumb.

a President who spends as much time talking about the new Internet age as Obama

In Giggles’ defense on this one, the only phrases he deems worthy of his sainted fingers to Google are:
“Barack Obama”
“President Obama”
“How awesome is Obama?”
“Obama is the best”
“Obama is the smartest president ever”
“Obama is the best president in history”
“Obama is the pinnicle of human evolution”
“I want to have Obama’s baby”

Well… you get the picture. Googleing “Winning the Future” in order to find out whether or not it’s been taken is just beneath Giggles’ awesomeness.

Winning? Isn’t that a term you would use in war? I thought we were being more civil these days. How about Working Together To Secure Our Financial Future And The Future Of Our Children, or WTTSOFFATFOOC for short?

Interesting to me to see how Bachmann’s TP response is being ignored by so many right leaning site’s… We’ll see if this continues throughout the day. They do so at their own peril, as this is a topic of discussion within the TP movement and it’s millions of people.

BTW, when Googling “Winning the Future” the first site that comes up is http://www.newt.org. The second is the Amazon.com link to Newt’s book. In all seriousness, I think they were too arrogant to do something as simple as a search. They’re all the smartest people ever, you know.

They stole the phrase. They do that always. Steal stuff from all places, put it together and present as their own. But what do you know. Only high IQ people do that. You remember Uncle Biden was also caught plagiarizing?

In the interest of Bi-Partisan Civility I dhunter suggest Newt the Neut publish a second printing of his book with the Face of OBlah BLah prominently displayed.

He could then capitalize on book sales to Chris Matthews, SourKraut, Peloosi, and the far leftards who agree with Newt that Global Warming, er, ah, er, Climate Change is a problem for which we should all pay more in taxes and for goods and services!

I am convinced after last night that OBLah Blah has no intention of running and certainly not of winning.
Work is too hard for this “Cousin Eddie”!

After that performance the only thing that makes sense is he knows the non-existent Birth certificate will disqualify him from enough States, that have the balls to pass a bill demanding proof of citizenship before election, that he cannot possibly win and would rather just take the cash and run!

By promoting this slogan he is promoting the Newt as his replacement knowing full well Newt will carry on and be a one termer!

Just hours after delivering his second State of the Union address, the president heads to Wisconsin to sell the five ‘pillars’ of change he espoused as the foundation for the second half of his term

Islam has five pillars for change, too. Just sayin…

This is not the first time that the ObaMao marketing strategy has swiped another’s slogan. Either ObaMao is learning the strategy from his VP, Plugs “Plagiarism” BiteMe, or perhaps this is how ObaMao coasted through undergraduate and law school.

Ed is correct according to all definitions I can find: its an acronym.

From Wikipedia: An internet slang acronym for “What the f**k?”

From AH Dictionary: ac·ro·nym (ăkrə-nĭm′)n.
A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women’s Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.

You’re misunderstanding the definitions you are citing. WTF doesn’t form a word, it forms three letters that are enunciated separately: W-T-F. Now, if WTF were pronounced “watif” or some such, you and he would be correct.

See how easy to make up meaningless phrases – it can be a new party game!

Chip on January 26, 2011 at 8:51 AM

Frickin A!
I think the Soviets were very good at this.
Read CPUSA vs PRAVDA propaganda slogans.
They are almost effing identical.
Someone needs to start slipping some of the former USSR slogans into things.
See if the Dems notice.
This is just too funny.

You’re misunderstanding the definitions you are citing. WTF doesn’t form a word, it forms three letters that are enunciated separately: W-T-F. Now, if WTF were pronounced “watif” or some such, you and he would be correct.

SD on January 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM

Interesting, because all of the sites listed below, plus many, many more to numerous to bother copying, ALL IDENTIFY WTF AS AN ACRONYM.

You’re misunderstanding the definitions you are citing. WTF doesn’t form a word, it forms three letters that are enunciated separately: W-T-F. Now, if WTF were pronounced “watif” or some such, you and he would be correct.

SD on January 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM

Interesting, because all of the sites listed below, plus many, many more to numerous to bother copying, ALL IDENTIFY WTF AS AN ACRONYM.

Well friend, if you see the definition of an acronym, you will notice SD was correct.

ac·ro·nym
/ˈækrənɪm/ Show Spelled[ak-ruh-nim] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, as Wac from Women’s Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.

There are four main kinds of abbreviations: shortenings, contractions, initialisms, and acronyms. 1 Shortenings of words usually consist of the first few letters of the full form and are usually spelled with a final period when they are still regarded as abbreviations, for example, cont. = continued, in = inch. In the cases when they form words in their own right, the period is omitted, for example, hippo = hippopotamus, limo = limousine. Such shortenings are often but not always informal. Some become the standard forms, and the full forms are then regarded as formal or technical, for example, bus = omnibus, taxi = taxicab, deli = delicatessen, zoo = zoological garden. Sometimes shortenings are altered to facilitate their pronunciation or spelling: bike = bicycle2 Contractions are abbreviated forms in which letters from the middle of the full form have been omitted, for example, Dr. = doctor, St. = saint or street. Such forms are invariably followed by a period. Another kind of contraction is the type with an apostrophe marking the omission of letters: can’t = cannot, didn’t = did not, you’ve = you have. 3 Initialisms are made up of the initial letters of words and are pronounced as separate letters: CIA (or C.I.A.), NYC, pm (or p.m.), U.S. (or US). Practice varies with regard to periods, with current usage increasingly in favor of omitting them, especially when the initialism consists entirely of capital letters. 4 Acronyms are initialisms that have become words in their own right, or similar words formed from parts of several words. They are pronounced as words rather than as a series of letters, for example, AIDS, laser, scuba, UNESCO, and do not have periods. In many cases the acronym becomes the standard term and the full form is only used in explanatory contexts.